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Monthly Archives: March 2018

IndoGreen to support sustainable agriculture in Indonesia’s upland

Blog post prepared by Sacha Amaruzaman, PhD Student at the Centre for Global Food & Resources Indonesia’s agricultural sector in the last decade has rapidly expanded in order to provide food for the growing population, as well as boosting the economic growth. Much of this expansion is in the upland area, bringing trade-off between the […]

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GFAR researchers in India and Bangladesh for the Happy Seeder Project

Blog post prepared by Rohan Yargop and Dr Adam Loch In one of our earlier blogs, we wrote about the practice of stubble burning in the Indian Gangetic Plains that has led to tremendous levels of air pollution in the region and has had a severe impact on the daily lives of people residing in […]

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GFAR Vietnam vegetables project in the news for International Women’s Day

Blog post by Nikki Dumbrell, Research Associate at GFAR In January 2018 Nikki Dumbrell, a Research Associate with The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) travelled to Lao Cai Province in Vietnam to evaluate and capture some of the impact of a GFAR-led research for development project. The project is funded by the Australian Centre for […]

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Conservation in the South Australian Mallee and Wheatbelt is Vulnerable to Climate Change

Blog post by A/Prof Patrick O’Connor The stability of vegetation in the South Australian Mallee and Wheatbelt regions has been shown to be susceptible to climate change. The unique mixtures of plants and animals of these systems are under threat from a mixture of climate change and fragmentation of the vegetation resulting from past land clearing. […]

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